Max Cámara is back!
Valencia's most famous police detective makes a long-awaited reappearance in this celebration of his life, his work, and the city he strives to protect. In a collection of articles, essays and an interview with Max himself, this first volume of Jason Webster's new series, Mosaics of Spain, takes us deep into Spanish crime - and one man's unorthodox ways of fighting it.
Including a profile of the head of the Valencia Police murder squad, a photo gallery, and thoughts on the psychology of detective fiction, The World of Max Cámara is a companion guide, an introduction and also a taster of future novels in the series to come.
Those who thought the chief inspector had worked his last case were wrong, and he's here to prove it. As the Spanish proverb says, Mala hierba nunca muere - You can't keep 'a bad man' down...

Jason Webster is a highly acclaimed Anglo-American author and authority on Spain whose work ranges from biography to travel, crime fiction and history. His books have sold in over a dozen countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, Japan and China, and have been nominated both for the Guardian First Book Award and the Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger Award. He has been favourably compared with writers such as Bruce Chatwin (The Daily Mail), Gerald Brenan (El País) and Ernest Hemingway (Sunday Telegraph). Webster has written extensively for newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Independent, Sunday Times, The Observer, Conde Nast Traveller and The New Statesman and has presented and appeared in several television and radio documentaries on Spain. Webster was born near San Francisco and brought up in the UK, Germany and Italy. After finishing a degree in Arabic and Islamic History at the University of Oxford, he worked as an editor at the BBC World Service for several years before becoming a full-time writer and moving to Spain. He is married to the flamenco dancer Salud and they have two sons. They currently divide their time between Valencia and the UK.